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A Linux Machine For Your Collar

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 28, 2004 @05:10AM from the eudaemonic-pie dept.

MadSaxon writes "gumstix.org has a brief but titillating description of a very small Linux machine based on the PXA255: 20 x 80 mm, '64MB SDRAM, 4MB Flash, MMC/SD/SDIO slot, and power management. It takes 3.6V - 5.0V power, and has been drawing under 200 mA.' It weighs less than 12g sans battery, and 'can fit in a collar undetected.' Is collar-top computing the Next Big Thing?"

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under the collar? by nizo · 2004-01-28 05:16 · Score: 5, Insightful

Ok great the computer fits under my collar, but does it have a jack to plug right into my brain? Or must I wear those uber-geeky display glasses with a one handed keyboard to use it, which would seem to defeat the purpose of yet another ultra small computer. It seems we need to work on the interface for wearables more than anything.

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Obvious rebuttal by cskaplan · 2004-01-28 05:38 · Score: 4, Insightful

Is collar-top computing the Next Big Thing?
No, it isn't.
Re:So It's a PDA by ill_mango · 2004-01-28 05:53 · Score: 5, Insightful

Yeah, I agree at this point it's little more than a geekier-looking PDA, but it would be cool if he could somehow come up with a screen that wears like glasses and some sort of small, one-handed input device.

I think people should start working on smaller, more convenient interfaces rather than smaller computers, because we have some pretty ridiculously small computers out already.